Gábor Stefanik wrote: > 2009/8/19 Mark Huijgen <mark.sf.net@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Gábor Stefanik wrote: >> >>> Mark, could you produce a dmesg output with the new firmware, patches >>> applied, and channel set to 1? Post the output of dmesg after scanning >>> & probably associating, if possible. (Scan/assoc may produce messages >>> in dmesg.) >>> >>> >> I tested this already, but with default chan set to 1, I cannot get the >> interface up. >> This is somewhere in my mail, but it got a bit messy after I noticed >> that after >> changing some of the code my modules got installed in another directory >> (-dirty). >> >> I just restarted the notebook, but now the results are different again... >> >> New firmware, with patches applied and default channel 7: >> [ 72.160057] b43-phy1: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 >> 00:50:23) >> [ 72.163484] b43-phy1 debug: RC calib: Failed to switch to channel 7, >> error = -5 >> [ 72.168100] b43-phy1 debug: Switch to init channel failed, error = -5. >> >> Recompile module with default chan 1, patches still applied and new >> firmware, >> # modprobe -r b43 && modprobe b43 verbose=3 && ifconfig wlan0 up >> >> [ 430.259877] b43-phy2 debug: Switch to init channel failed, error = -5. >> >> Recompile again, but with default chan back to 7, still patched and >> still new firmware. >> So same as in first situation: >> # modprobe -r b43 && modprobe b43 verbose=3 && ifconfig wlan0 up >> >> [ 524.748062] b43-phy3 debug: Chip initialized >> >> And I can get my interface up and working! >> >> Without this procedure I have not been able to get a working chip. Seems >> the partially >> initialized state after each try, allows the next try to get a bit >> further. And together with >> the default channel switching between 1 and 7, I get a working chip, but >> a chip that does >> not seem to be able to find my AP thats on channel 1. >> >> If I now change default chan to 1 again, I am getting the same error as >> in step 2 above. >> I have not been able to get the interface up with default chan set to 1. >> >> Mark >> >> >> > > What do you see in dmesg after running a scan? > After step 2, interface cannot be brought up: # iw dev wlan0 scan command failed: Network is down (-100) No extra output in dmesg After step 3 (so with default chan 7 again), interface comes up and I can scan: # iw dev wlan0 scan <<list of scan results>> No extra output generated in dmesg. I must add that I do not have debugging messages enabled for any mac80211 related options, only for b43 module. Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
